"Are religion and science completely autonomous, and hence incommensurable universes of discourse? Does the examination of meditation practice by scientific means dehumanise and despiritualise it? The importance of this book lies in the fact that it confronts questions such as these, and offers us a wide range of studies that . . . [show] ways in which seemingly diverse cultural traditions can enrich and enliven each other."
—John Clarke, The Scientific and Medical Network

          INTERNATIONAL BRAIN RESEARCH ORGANIZATION ( IBRO )                   

      Psychologists often speak of the mind and the body as two separate entities for convenience, but most acknowledge that they are intimately entwined. Yet none knows exactly how or how intimately. So the mind body problem keeps stubbornly resisting a definite solution. Philosopher John Searle ( Mills Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkley ) says that today’s philosophers are reluctant to tackle such big problems as how people have been trying to understand their relationship to the universe.................

           Interdependence in Buddhism
       In order to understand Buddhist cosmology, we have to comprehend one of the key concepts of Buddhism, that of "interdependence". One of the aspects of that interdependence is the relationship between humanity's consciousness and the reality we perceive around us. According to Buddhism, all the proprieties that we attribute to the phenomenal world are not necessarily intrinsic to the object itself, but are conceived by our mind and filtered through our perceptions. Thus the same reality may appear differently to different intelligences.

           Buddhism and Quantum Mechanics